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| author | Marco Barisione <mbarisione@undo.io> | 2019-04-01 09:59:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Marco Barisione <mbarisione@undo.io> | 2019-04-01 10:00:04 +0200 |
| commit | 52093e1b936fa4f3f8bb3868c5a44d0df25c8db4 (patch) | |
| tree | 469d4c4d62e846bdd08b14a8beffbe4c975fd3ff /gdb/NEWS | |
| parent | 8828efdb24ef337e074183a0db3ac6399a3c09ba (diff) | |
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Add gdb.Value.format_string ()
The str () function, called on a gdb.Value instance, produces a string
representation similar to what can be achieved with the print command,
but it doesn't allow to specify additional formatting settings, for
instance disabling pretty printers.
This patch introduces a new format_string () method to gdb.Value which
allows specifying more formatting options, thus giving access to more
features provided by the internal C function common_val_print ().
gdb/ChangeLog:
2019-04-01 Marco Barisione <mbarisione@undo.io>
Add gdb.Value.format_string ().
* python/py-value.c (copy_py_bool_obj):
(valpy_format_string): Add gdb.Value.format_string ().
* NEWS: Document the addition of gdb.Value.format_string ().
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2019-04-01 Marco Barisione <mbarisione@undo.io>
* python.texi (Values From Inferior): Document
gdb.Value.format_string ().
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2019-04-01 Marco Barisione <mbarisione@undo.io>
Test gdb.Value.format_string ().
* gdb.python/py-format-string.exp: New test.
* gdb.python/py-format-string.c: New file.
* gdb.python/py-format-string.py: New file.
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@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ * Support for Pointer Authentication on AArch64 Linux. +* Python API + + ** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a + string representing the value. The formatting is controlled by the + optional keyword arguments: 'raw', 'pretty_arrays', 'pretty_structs', + 'array_indexes', 'symbols', 'unions', 'deref_refs', 'actual_objects', + 'static_members', 'max_elements', 'repeat_threshold', and 'format'. + + *** Changes in GDB 8.3 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on |